{"id":97615,"date":"2019-10-19T21:42:43","date_gmt":"2019-10-20T04:42:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/10\/surprise-black-hole-discovery-could-explain-how-they-grew-so-enormous-in-the-early-universe"},"modified":"2019-10-19T21:42:43","modified_gmt":"2019-10-20T04:42:43","slug":"surprise-black-hole-discovery-could-explain-how-they-grew-so-enormous-in-the-early-universe","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/10\/surprise-black-hole-discovery-could-explain-how-they-grew-so-enormous-in-the-early-universe","title":{"rendered":"Surprise Black Hole Discovery Could Explain How They Grew So Enormous in The Early Universe"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/surprise-black-hole-discovery-could-explain-how-they-grew-so-enormous-in-the-early-universe2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>In recent years, cosmologists peering back to the very dawn of our Universe have discovered something peculiar. A <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sciencealert.com\/there-shouldn-t-be-supermassive-black-holes-in-the-early-universe-astronomers-have-just-found-83\">whole bunch<\/a> of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sciencealert.com\/supermassive-black-hole-quasar-epoch-of-reionisation-j1342-0928\">supermassive black holes<\/a> \u2014 in a time thought way too early for such massive objects to have formed.<\/p>\n<p>Exactly how they got to be so freaking huge so quickly is a heck of a puzzle \u2014 but a new surprise discovery might have delivered an answer. The disc of dust and gas around a supermassive <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sciencealert.com\/black-holes\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"black hole\">black hole<\/a> is moving in such a way that it\u2019s slurping down material faster than it would normally.<\/p>\n<p>That means it\u2019s gaining mass faster than expected \u2014 which in turn could explain what happened in the earliest days of our Universe.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In recent years, cosmologists peering back to the very dawn of our Universe have discovered something peculiar. A whole bunch of supermassive black holes \u2014 in a time thought way too early for such massive objects to have formed. Exactly how they got to be so freaking huge so quickly is a heck of a [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":511,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33,1635],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-97615","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cosmology","category-materials"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/97615","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/511"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=97615"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/97615\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=97615"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=97615"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=97615"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}